Could you cook in a kitchen with only 3 pans? Buy groceries for two instead of six? What’s it like when your sink and shower are only divided by the size of a toilet? And is it okay to eschew the kitchen table for one on the patio that overlooks the sun rising over the mountains?

Our Caliente Springs homeowners do love their park models, but if you’re upsizing, downsizing, or just simply right-sizing away from your current home, we’ve got a few tips to help you get the best price you can when selling your existing manufactured home in the resort. Even if you are almost ready to sell, you can use these tips to boost your home’s value in the days, weeks, or months leading up to your listing.

Beauty comes in many shapes and sizes. While leafy plants and giant trees might not do well in the desert climate, there are plenty of low-maintenance, sustainable options to help you create a beautiful tableau around your park model or manufactured home. Ray Lotz, Sky Valley’s manager of community standards, is here to help by offering suggestions and recommendations.

Homeowners at Caliente Springs are active, outdoorsy and usually in excellent health. With a combination of tennis, golf, pickleball and swimming routines, our community keeps moving long into their retirement years. But even the healthiest and most energetic know that they can’t defy age completely and one day, things will start to move a little bit slower. It’s not too early to start maintaining a household that can cater to a version of yourself with a little less mobility.

Is a cozy cottage, far away from noise and pollution and civilization, on your retirement wishlist? You can have all that, along with perfect weather, relaxing mineral hot spring pools, an active, friendly community network, and even a spare guest bedroom, when you move into a Caliente Springs home from the Cottage Collection.

Nightly dark skies, loaded with millions of stars. Clean desert air, far from the polluted cities. Flat vistas, distant mountains, beautiful sunrises, all colored by year-round sunshine: these are the reasons our residents are drawn to the village of Caliente Springs. Incorporate Sky Valley’s open skies into your living plan with a manufactured home from our Courtyard Collection.

Thinking of a move to the Coachella Valley? The Chalet Collection’s three floor plans are named for our own local mountain ranges, with each design supporting your priorities. A Santa Rosa, San Gorgonio or San Jacinto layout will offer living space, entertainment and guest room options designed with your needs in mind.

Snowbirds, minimalists and weekenders alike can experience the comfort of home in our Casita Collection. Spanish for “tiny home,” Casitas are Caliente Springs’ most affordable line of park model homes. At 400 square feet, the floor plans prioritize simplicity and convenience. The perfect high-value, entry-level purchase, seasonal and temporary residents appreciate the virtually maintenance-free appeal, while environmentally-conscious homeowners and minimalists value the low carbon footprint. Perhaps a Casita is a good investment for you?

The 300 days of sunshine a year and desert beauty and mystique automatically make Palm Springs, California, a must-see destination. Additionally, it has a great deal of amazing opportunities for entertainment and excitement ranging from golf courses, museums, outdoor entertainment. There are many activities which can only be seen and done uniquely in Palm Springs, and are worthy of being on your bucket list!

While “April showers bring May flowers” in four-season climates, for Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley, it’s November through January rainfall that predicts the robustness of the March and April desert bloom. This year, heavy rainfall as early as October germinated lots of seeds across the valley floor; a relative deluge in January assures that residents will see some color very soon. The Desert Sun predicts that “the likes of Desert Dandelions, Brown-eyed Primrose and Hairy Sand Verbena could show up as early as late January if temperatures are warm enough.” Other more elusive desert flowers are expected by March, in what ecologists believe is the makings of a great wildflower season.

The growing generation of Baby Boomers leaving work are transforming retirement life from endless leisure to a chance for discovering, learning, and practicing a myriad of new life skills. Whether through sharing expertise, staying physically and mentally active, or improving health consciousness, the new retiree is investing in people and perspective. With these new priorities in mind, here are a few ways you can plan for an active life in your upcoming retirement.